ECONOMY AND RELIGION RELATIONSHIP: LITERATURE REVIEW, INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND AND CONSTRUCT

Year 2017, Volume: 22 Issue: 3, 927 - 944, 30.07.2017

Esra Sincer

Abstract

Individual’s choice and behaviours are influenced from religion’s norms and values. From this point of view the economic theories based on the individual behaviour are also influenced from religion and values. Since the beginning of modernisation especially in the era of neoclassical approach; the relationship between economy and religion has ignored. But nowadays with the diffusion of the conception that the culture and values have an effect on individuals, the relationship between religion and economy has once more gain importance. By 1990’s due to the increasing power and importance of Islamic Calvinists, in Turkey, the interest on religion and economy relation has increased. Neverthelesss there are not so many studies about the general review of economy- religion relation in Turkish literature. This study aims to fill this gap inside the literature. In conclusion the studies about economy and religion relationship;are seperated in to three groups as; studies on explaining the religious belief and behaviours with economic theory, studies about the consequences of religious belief and behaviour and studies about religion economics . At the end of this study , the general evaluation has been made, over the main questions and research areas of the studies in each group. By this way the religion-economy relationship has been discussed.

Keywords

Religion, Economy, Relationship Level, Weber

İKTİSAT VE DİN İLİŞKİSİ: LİTERATÜR DEĞERLENDİRMESİ ZİHİNSEL ARKA PLAN VE KURGU

Abstract

İnsan davranış ve tercihleri; dinlerin ve dinler tarafından yaratılan norm ve değer yargılarının etkisi altında bulunmaktadır. Buradan hareketle insan davranışlarına dayalı iktisat teorisi de dinden ve değer yargılarından etkilenmektedir. Modernleşme sonrası dönemde özellikle neoliberal iktisat anlayışında iktisat-din ilişkisi göz ardı edilmektedir. Ancak günümüzde bireylerin kültür ve değer yargılarının etkisi altında olduğu düşüncesinin yaygınlaşması ile iktisat-din ilişkisi yeniden önem kazanmaktadır. 1990’larda İslami Kalvinist’lerin güç ve etkisini arttırmasıyla ülkemizde de iktisat din ilişkisine ilgi artmaktadır. Buna rağmen Türkçe literatürde; din-iktisat ilişkisiyle ilgili genel değerlendirmeye dayalı çok fazla çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Çalışma ile literatürdeki bu eksikliğin giderilmesine katkı sağlanması amaçlanmaktadır. Sonuçta; iktisat-din ilişkisine yönelik çalışmalar; dini inanç ve davranışları iktisat teorisi ile açıklayan çalışmalar, dini inanç ve davranışların sonucuna ilişkin çalışmalar ve din ekonomisine yönelik çalışmalar olmak üzere üç alt gruba ayrıştırılmaktadır. Çalışma sonucunda her bir alt gruba ait çalışmaların temel soruları ve araştırma alanları üzerinden genel bir değerlendirme yapılarak iktisat–din ilişkisi tartışılmış olmaktadır.

Keywords

Din, İktisat, İlişki Düzeyi, Weber

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